Practice FrenchC1noun
la dérive
drift, worrying slide off course
A feminine noun — la in the singular, les in the plural.
« Plusieurs élus dénoncent la dérive autoritaire du gouvernement. »
“Several elected officials are denouncing the government’s authoritarian drift.”
In other languages
- Spanish deriva, desviación preocupante
- Portuguese deriva, desvio preocupante de rumo
- Arabic الانحراف التدريجي المقلق عن المسار
- German Abgleiten, bedenkliche Fehlentwicklung
- Italian deriva, scivolamento preoccupante fuori rotta
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